Looking into houses

[freyf]

Aibu or do other people enjoy looking into other peoples houses and get a lovely cosy feeling. It's almost like a nostalgia for when I was a child and felt cosy in my own room. I weirdly have never had this same feeling anywhere I have loved. I just get it looking into others windows especially at dusk/night.

I love doing it. Especially if we've been out for something to eat and a couple of drinks and get public transport home. When it's cold and dark outside homes with the curtains open, with Christmas trees lit and the inside looks so welcoming and cosy. You get a great vantage point sitting higher up in a bus.

I like it too. It makes me feel like there's a bigger picture. There are so many people with their own story / life / home and we all have problems / good times / bad times and our own stories.

It makes me feel connected somehow and part of a larger thing. It takes me away from my own trivial stuff. Because I realise we are all kind of the same or very similar.

I had the same feeling today in a large traffic jam on the motorway looking at other cars and their passengers. They were all like me somehow. Families or people on their own, with somewhere to go. Probably to see family for Christmas or to pick up some food etc. we are all kind of the same and do similar things.

Love train journeys where I get to see the backs of houses. Rows of terraced houses are great for quick glimpses of people's domestic lives.

I'm so glad it's not just me. I just imagine people all cosy in their own spaces with furniture and belongings unique to them. It makes me feel really comforted and that I would love to be in there and feel the warmth and comfort. I have a nice home and have decorated it to feel cosy but I just cannot get this same feeling I attribute to others houses. I used to get this feeling when my mum would take me to her friends houses, they were always so cosy and warm and comforting.

Yes! Me too!!

Oh yes, you’ve described it perfectly. That slightly poignant, sad but at the same time heart warming feeling of being part of a bigger thing.

I love it too.